The Roald Dahl Treasury

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This is a collection of snippets (and whatever the appropriate word for entended snippets is) of the wondrous works of the greatest storyteller of all time. In each section, there is a mix of complete stories, extracts from longer fiction, rhymes and memoirs as well as unpublished poetry and letters. The other poems and short stories, some from Dirty Beasts and Revolting Rhymes, had just as much charm as they did the first time around. My husband reads to our unborn baby every night from this book (and others), which is absolutely adorable.

By this time, I have read most of the novels/novellas featured in this book so I had a better handle on the extracts provided.His first children's book was The Gremlins, about mischievous little creatures that were part of RAF folklore. All in all a really rich collection of Dahl and definitely a book I'd bring out to help with bedtime stories when babysitting. And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. I'd not read a whole lot of Roald Dahl, but I knew the stories and had watched several of the films and loved them.

Dahl wrote more than 60 short stories and they have appeared in numerous collections, some only being published in book form after his death. I felt myself thrown right into the whirlpool of craziness that is Dahl’s written universe, and with the illustrations that to me at least were so emblematic and in line with his writing. I only read two Roald Dahl books as a child and they were Danny Champion of the World and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was here that Roald Dahl began to tell his five children made-up bedtime stories and from those that he began to consider writing stories for children. I love anything Roald Dahl (as you can probably gather from my books), so I was excited that he bought this for me.I would really like to have a large volume of Dahl's collected works, and while this is a step in that direction, I was surprised to find that it was only selections.